Posts on Development

  1. The Rise of Codelets: How AI Changed the Way I Think About Throwaway Code

    For most of my career, when I hit a problem I needed to solve with code, the first instinct was to go looking for something that already existed. Search GitHub, check NuGet, find a Stack Overflow thread, grab an open-source project and tweak it. The cost of writing something from scratch, even something small, was high enough that reuse almost always made sense.

    AI has quietly changed that calculus. And I think it’s more significant than most people are giving it credit for.

  2. PowerShell Cron Script

    I was looking for a way to schedule jobs and yes windows has a task scheduler built in, however I wanted a bit more flexibility and less complexity.

  3. When is true not true?

    When you look at true stored in the .Net framework. While playing with Pex I found out a interesting fact that the bool is a byte in the MSIL. Which means that a bool could be equal to anything on the byte range… Now this would require you to go out of your way and create unsafe code blocks to do this. Why you would do this… No ideas :) Its marked as a no-fix which is not surprising as I would not fix it either because as they say, if you know about this and you use it then you are on your own.

  4. ToodleDo DF Update

    Made a few fixes, I am also working on a simple API after dusting off some old work I had. This will allow interaction from the desktop and eventually a cached mode. V 0.20.1005.2301 - Created link in options to edit css styles. - Fixed issue where focus mode would not take window out of topmost mode.